Topic: Understanding how Art influences Architecture:

-Preeti Nataraj, 18bar027

Keywords: Abstraction, Movements, Artist, Architecture, History
-Art and architecture going hand in hand, right from the renaissance times to even the
modern contemporary
-Boundaries are blurred taking in visuals from Art, bringing in the era of cubism, the
infamous De Stilj movement and even referencing Pop Art and Culture.
-Many of our artists create faithful representations of architectural structures, while others
use architecture as a stepping stone to abstraction, looking into these abstractions
-Influences of Art in Architecture seen in historical buildings, understanding the ideas behind
geometric developments in the field
-Michelangelo’s Sistine chapel, one of the many examples wherein art is introduced as a
part of the built form with paintings on ceilings
-In early prehistoric times, Art has been evolved out of the necessity for religion and food,
and architecture out of the need for shelter and protection from the elements and the wild.
-Art influencing the architecture of different cultures and its examples
- Architects build in unity with nature and purpose, just as artists aim to emulate nature
through their paintings, sculptures, and even abstract expressions. Because the majority of
the early architects were also artists, their work was often linked to nature.
- Study of John Ruskin who thought of Architecture in Art as “architecture was nothing more
or less than the art of ornament construction”.
- Design theories in both art and architecture that emphasize visual character and enhance
the scale
-Art and architecture coming together to redefine public spaces
-Art used as a visual stimulus for social and cultural interactions
-Architects with a background in any form of art and their reflections in the field, i.e., Le
Corbusier was a sculptor and he always looked at architecture as a sculpture as a whole
-Museums of Art and their reflections of the art in the form of Architecture
-Built form and volumes that are geometrically derived or influenced from Paintings
-Art needs an environment to be showcased, how does Architecture provide for it?